Fresh
Barbara Stanwyck is the sexiest con woman ever captured on film.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
The Lady Eve
When you deal a fast shuffle, love is in the cards.
1941 · 1h 37m · Passed
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Preston Sturges
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The Lady Eve
Overview
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
Director and cast
- Preston Sturges Director
- Barbara Stanwyck as Jean Harrington
- Henry Fonda as Charles Pike
- Charles Coburn as 'Colonel' Harrington
- Eugene Pallette as Horace Pike
- William Demarest as Muggsy
- Eric Blore as Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith
- Melville Cooper as Gerald
- Martha O'Driscoll as Martha
- Janet Beecher as Janet Pike
- Robert Greig Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
100%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Third writer-director effort of Preston Sturges [from a story by Monckton Hoffe] is laugh entertainment of top proportions with its combo of slick situations, spontaneous dialog and a few slapstick falls tossed in for good measure.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Preston Sturges extended his range beyond the crazy farces that had made his reputation with this romantic 1941 comedy, and his hand proved just as sure.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
A beguilingly ribald sex comedy, spattered with characteristic Sturges slapstick.
Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh
Now there's no question about it: Preston Sturges is definitely and distinctly the most refreshing new force to hit the American motion pictures in the past five years.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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